Astrology and Tarot - Tools for Transformative Times
Astrology and Tarot - Tools for Transformative Times
Up to 60 in group
May 15 - 18, 2025
Retreat Highlights
- Track 1: Astrology as a tool for personal and spiritual growth - explore four primary areas where astrology can offer life changing insights — Life Purpose, Transits, Vocation, and Relationships.
- Track 2: Using Tarot for Insight and Developing Intuition - explore Tarot through intuition, meditation and reflection.
- Learn to use Astrology and Tarot as tools for meditation, intuition, and self growth
About this Retreat
Details of this retreat
Thursday, May 15 Dinner - Sunday, May 18 Breakfast
This program has 2 tracks, an Astrology track with Stephanie Austin and a Tarot track with Callie French. Participants choose one track (and indicate which track on the registration form), and will have an opportunity to experience aspects of both tracks during the evening programs.
Track 1: Astrology as a tool for personal and spiritual growth
with Stephanie Austin
“When you follow your bliss, a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you.” — Joseph Campbell
Life is a journey, and our birth chart provides a spiritual map and compass of where we want to go. Astrology provides an invaluable tool for understanding ourselves, others, and the role we came to play in this pivotal time on Earth. It details what we came to learn, and what we have to share. Astrology’s language of energy, cycles, and patterns can validate what we already know on a deeper level — empowering us to trust our intuition, live joyfully, and fulfill our soul intentions. It reminds us that everything is connected, everything changes, and that our journey is a part of humanity’s evolution as well.
This track will explore four primary areas where astrology can offer life changing insights — Life Purpose, Transits, Vocation, and Relationships. Each session will include ways to apply the information, time for questions, and detailed handouts. For those not familiar with the basics (signs, planets, houses, aspects), or an evolutionary approach, reading The Inner Sky by Steven Forrest beforehand would provide a good foundation. Please include your birthdate, place, and time (if known) when registering. Participants will receive detailed handouts to help apply what they have learned to their own charts as well as those of friends and family, clients and colleagues.
Track 2: Using Tarot for Insight and Developing Intuition
with Callie L French
Tarot is an ancient archetypal system that tells each and every person’s life story as it unfolds before them. Composed of symbols that have been adopted, adapted, and kidnapped from every other brand of Western fortune-telling, Tarot is simple in method and baffling in meaning. The more you know about astrology, numerology, the Kabbalah, Theosophical color theory, Neoplatonism, Christian theology or the history of magic the more information can be derived from the images on the cards. Tarot meanings are remarkably elastic and variable, which can lead to interpretive chaos, but which also gives it a vitality and responsiveness unmatched by any other means of divination.
Throughout the weekend we will explore Tarot through intuition, meditation and reflection. Beginning with a basic outline of the Major and Minor Arcana we will move into your own particular cards, your ‘constellation’ based on your date of birth (Numerology). Each day features ‘flinging’ cards, readings for yourselves and others before taking a deep dive into the esoteric side of using Tarot as a meditation tool in the afternoon, a key to a door; the beginning of a journey as varied as each person experiencing it.
Please bring a Tarot deck comprised of 78 cards, a standard Rider-Waite-Smith or Thoth deck is recommended. Oracle decks, Lenormand or Kipper decks will not be relatable for this exercise. Handouts of all material presented will be provided, but having a journal will be helpful with certain aspect of this program.
Program Fees:
Program fees are all-inclusive and cover accommodation, food, and program specifics for the entire program. Participants may choose their accommodation type preference (Plumbing, Non-Plumbing, RV/Tent) and may select to work on daily staff (3 hours commitment per day) for a substantial discount. Children under 6 are free.
See Accommodation Types here: https://www.indralaya.org/home/guest-information/accommodation-types-indralaya/
Non-Accommodation rates are for program and meals only. Daily Staff discounts for non-accommodation rates cover meals.
In the table "Std" is standard rate; "DS" is Daily Staff Rate.
Registration Instructions:
You may register one or more persons in a single registration. To register more than one, select multiple persons for your accommodation type.
If you are selecting Daily Staff please indicate in notes who in the party is taking the daily staff discount (available to adults, young adults, teens). Daily staff discounts (except for No-Accommodation rates) are indicated by checking Daily Staff as an additional item. The discount will be applied on checkout.
You have an option of making a donation to Indralaya as part of your registration.
On checkout, please indicate if you are a "friend of Indralaya" (if you are not you can become one by selecting this option) - this will confer a 5% discount on your camp accommodation fees.
Cancellation Policy
Free cancellation through April 2 - $0
Cancellation fee April 3-April 16 - $50
Cancellation fee April 17 and later - $100 Read More
This program has 2 tracks, an Astrology track with Stephanie Austin and a Tarot track with Callie French. Participants choose one track (and indicate which track on the registration form), and will have an opportunity to experience aspects of both tracks during the evening programs.
Track 1: Astrology as a tool for personal and spiritual growth
with Stephanie Austin
“When you follow your bliss, a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you.” — Joseph Campbell
Life is a journey, and our birth chart provides a spiritual map and compass of where we want to go. Astrology provides an invaluable tool for understanding ourselves, others, and the role we came to play in this pivotal time on Earth. It details what we came to learn, and what we have to share. Astrology’s language of energy, cycles, and patterns can validate what we already know on a deeper level — empowering us to trust our intuition, live joyfully, and fulfill our soul intentions. It reminds us that everything is connected, everything changes, and that our journey is a part of humanity’s evolution as well.
This track will explore four primary areas where astrology can offer life changing insights — Life Purpose, Transits, Vocation, and Relationships. Each session will include ways to apply the information, time for questions, and detailed handouts. For those not familiar with the basics (signs, planets, houses, aspects), or an evolutionary approach, reading The Inner Sky by Steven Forrest beforehand would provide a good foundation. Please include your birthdate, place, and time (if known) when registering. Participants will receive detailed handouts to help apply what they have learned to their own charts as well as those of friends and family, clients and colleagues.
Track 2: Using Tarot for Insight and Developing Intuition
with Callie L French
Tarot is an ancient archetypal system that tells each and every person’s life story as it unfolds before them. Composed of symbols that have been adopted, adapted, and kidnapped from every other brand of Western fortune-telling, Tarot is simple in method and baffling in meaning. The more you know about astrology, numerology, the Kabbalah, Theosophical color theory, Neoplatonism, Christian theology or the history of magic the more information can be derived from the images on the cards. Tarot meanings are remarkably elastic and variable, which can lead to interpretive chaos, but which also gives it a vitality and responsiveness unmatched by any other means of divination.
Throughout the weekend we will explore Tarot through intuition, meditation and reflection. Beginning with a basic outline of the Major and Minor Arcana we will move into your own particular cards, your ‘constellation’ based on your date of birth (Numerology). Each day features ‘flinging’ cards, readings for yourselves and others before taking a deep dive into the esoteric side of using Tarot as a meditation tool in the afternoon, a key to a door; the beginning of a journey as varied as each person experiencing it.
Please bring a Tarot deck comprised of 78 cards, a standard Rider-Waite-Smith or Thoth deck is recommended. Oracle decks, Lenormand or Kipper decks will not be relatable for this exercise. Handouts of all material presented will be provided, but having a journal will be helpful with certain aspect of this program.
Program Fees:
Program fees are all-inclusive and cover accommodation, food, and program specifics for the entire program. Participants may choose their accommodation type preference (Plumbing, Non-Plumbing, RV/Tent) and may select to work on daily staff (3 hours commitment per day) for a substantial discount. Children under 6 are free.
See Accommodation Types here: https://www.indralaya.org/home/guest-information/accommodation-types-indralaya/
Non-Accommodation rates are for program and meals only. Daily Staff discounts for non-accommodation rates cover meals.
In the table "Std" is standard rate; "DS" is Daily Staff Rate.
Registration Instructions:
You may register one or more persons in a single registration. To register more than one, select multiple persons for your accommodation type.
If you are selecting Daily Staff please indicate in notes who in the party is taking the daily staff discount (available to adults, young adults, teens). Daily staff discounts (except for No-Accommodation rates) are indicated by checking Daily Staff as an additional item. The discount will be applied on checkout.
You have an option of making a donation to Indralaya as part of your registration.
On checkout, please indicate if you are a "friend of Indralaya" (if you are not you can become one by selecting this option) - this will confer a 5% discount on your camp accommodation fees.
Cancellation Policy
Free cancellation through April 2 - $0
Cancellation fee April 3-April 16 - $50
Cancellation fee April 17 and later - $100 Read More
Schedule
Daily schedule includes:
7 am - meditation
8 am - breakfast
9-12 - program
12:30 - lunch
1:30-3:00 program
6:00 - dinner
8:00 - campfire
7 am - meditation
8 am - breakfast
9-12 - program
12:30 - lunch
1:30-3:00 program
6:00 - dinner
8:00 - campfire
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change
Read MoreGetting Here
Directions
Orcas island is accessible through the Washington State Ferries
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Accommodation
Accommodations include rustic cabins (some with plumbing, most without), "roundhouse" - 7 rooms with shared baths in hotel-style, tenting available
Adult/Young Adult Plumbing
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Teen 13-17 Plumbing
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Child 6-12 Plumbing
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Child 0-5 Plumbing
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Adult Non-Plumbing
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Young Adult Non-Plumbing
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Teen-Ager 13-17 Non Plumbing
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Child 6-12 Non Plumbing
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Child 0-5 Non plumbing
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Adult - RV/Tent
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Young Adult - RV/Tent
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Teen-Ager 13-17 RV/Tent
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Child 6-12 RV/Tent
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Child 0-5 RV/Tent
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Adult - No Accommodation
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Adult - No Accommodation daily staff
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Young Adult - No Accommodation
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Young Adult No Accommodation - Daily Staff
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Teen-Ager 13-17 No Accommodation
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Teen-Ager 13-17 No Accommodation 0 Daily Staff
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Child 6-12 No Accommodation
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Child 0-5 No Accommodation
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Venue & Amenities
Meals
Menu Types
Meals are served buffet style in a dining hall with large communal tables.
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What's Included
- meals
- accommodation
- linens (if requested, or bring your sleeping bag and towel)
- ferry pickup
What's Not Included
- Travel to and from Orcas island
- Personal toiletries